Five Drinking Games (Increasing in Difficulty)

…a scene of merriment is interrupted by the arrival of wounded soldiers.

…Hawkeye makes sport of another person’s pain.

…McLean Stevenson dies unexpectedly.

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Three: Inside the Actor’s Studio

Drink whenever…

…an acting student asks a question that turns out to be more of a statement.

…an actor discusses an early, demeaning job with a great show of good-humored, self-effacing embarrassment.

…series host James Lipton praises a guest so fulsomely that you yourself, sitting at home in your underpants with your bottle of bourbon, feel uncomfortable.

…during the show-ending questionnaire, an actor is asked his or her favorite swear word, and they smirk and say one, and it’s bleeped out, and it gets a huge laugh, as if no one’s ever seen this happen before, as if the mere utterance of a swear word is very funny.